Id like to make a different suggestion about the forum structure.
What I find increasingly frustrating is that with the growth of the forums (and the growth of my personal life) I find I have less and less time with which to keep up with everything.
In particular are the threads on skins and bug fixes that have dozens of pages and just hundreds of posts. Sitting and reading through all them is almost impossible and Ive seen a couple of times people respond with 'why do I answer the same old questions'. Its because you cant see the woods for the trees !
My suggestion would be that for those people who simply wish to say 'thanks' there would be a button that registers their gratitude and puts their username in a list at the top of the thread and nothing more.
I think positive feedback is very very important but having it clog up threads defeats the purpose IMO.
Ive seen it work on other forums and it keeps the threads to a very reasonable level. Whereas at the moment Im starting to lose interest because I just dont have the time. Im also less inclined to post saying thank-you because I know its just going to add to the problem.
Just thinking out loud, but Id be interested to hear other peoples thoughts.
Cheers
Martyn
What I find increasingly frustrating is that with the growth of the forums (and the growth of my personal life) I find I have less and less time with which to keep up with everything.
In particular are the threads on skins and bug fixes that have dozens of pages and just hundreds of posts. Sitting and reading through all them is almost impossible and Ive seen a couple of times people respond with 'why do I answer the same old questions'. Its because you cant see the woods for the trees !
My suggestion would be that for those people who simply wish to say 'thanks' there would be a button that registers their gratitude and puts their username in a list at the top of the thread and nothing more.
I think positive feedback is very very important but having it clog up threads defeats the purpose IMO.
Ive seen it work on other forums and it keeps the threads to a very reasonable level. Whereas at the moment Im starting to lose interest because I just dont have the time. Im also less inclined to post saying thank-you because I know its just going to add to the problem.
Just thinking out loud, but Id be interested to hear other peoples thoughts.
Cheers
Martyn